This instructional arrangement/setting is for providing special education and related services to students who are served at home or hospital bedside. (A) Students served on a homebound or hospital bedside basis are expected to be confined for a minimum of four consecutive weeks as documented by a physician licensed to practice in the United States. Homebound or hospital bedside instruction may, as provided by local district policy, also be provided to chronically ill students who are expected to be confined for any period of time totaling at least four weeks throughout the school year as documented by a physician licensed to practice in the United States. The student's ARD committee shall determine the amount of services to be provided to the student in this instructional arrangement/setting in accordance with federal and state laws, rules, and regulations, including the provisions specified in subsection (b) of this section. (B) Home instruction may also be used for services to infants and toddlers (birth through age 2) and young children (ages 3-5) when determined appropriate by the child's individualized family services plan (IFSP) committee or ARD committee. This arrangement/setting also applies to school districts described in Texas Education Code, §29.0
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Procedures for Special Education Homebound Instruction:
All students referred for homebound instruction must be residents of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and enrolled in their school of attendance. Students will remain enrolled on the campus of attendance and continue to receive instructional services from the school until eligibility for homebound services is determined.
The school nurse or principal’s designee is the initial contact person in the referral process and is responsible for the completion of all components of the Homebound Referral Packet. The completed Homebound Referral Packet is sent to Community Services.
The Admission Review and Dismissal/Individualized Education Program (ARD/IEP) committee must consider the physician's information as one of the factors in the committee's decision-making process when determining home-bound instructional services. However, the licensed physician’s information is not the sole consideration in this process. The ARD/IEP committee will meet to determine the need for homebound instruction. If the ARD/IEP committee determines the need for homebound services, the anticipated start and end dates and a plan for reintegration of the student to the sending school setting will be established. Community Services will provide the itinerant teacher who will log services and update the student's IEP goals and objectives in the special education data management system. assign the itinerant teacher who will log services and update the students IEP goals and objections in the special education data management system.
Homebound instruction is a temporary service and is discontinued in consultation with the physician, or upon the expiration of the documented need for homebound services.
Community Services and the sending campus will reconvene the ARD/IEP committee to return the student to the sending campus and determine the appropriate instructional program.
Note: The instructional setting from the sending campus to Community Services and from Community Services to the sending campus must be changed in the special education management system and the student information system at the conclusion of the ARD/IEP meeting.
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This instructional arrangement/setting is for providing special education and related services to students who are served at home or hospital bedside. (A) Students served on a homebound or hospital bedside basis are expected to be confined for a minimum of four consecutive weeks as documented by a physician licensed to practice in the United States. Homebound or hospital bedside instruction may, as provided by local district policy, also be provided to chronically ill students who are expected to be confined for any period of time totaling at least four weeks throughout the school year as documented by a physician licensed to practice in the United States. The student's ARD committee shall determine the amount of services to be provided to the student in this instructional arrangement/setting in accordance with federal and state laws, rules, and regulations, including the provisions specified in subsection (b) of this section. (B) Home instruction may also be used for services to infants and toddlers (birth through age 2) and young children (ages 3-5) when determined appropriate by the child's individualized family services plan (IFSP) committee or ARD committee. This arrangement/setting also applies to school districts described in Texas Education Code, §29.0What We Do
Procedures for Special Education Homebound Instruction:
All students referred for homebound instruction must be residents of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and enrolled in their school of attendance. Students will remain enrolled on the campus of attendance and continue to receive instructional services from the school until eligibility for homebound services is determined.
The school nurse or principal’s designee is the initial contact person in the referral process and is responsible for the completion of all components of the Homebound Referral Packet. The completed Homebound Referral Packet is sent to Community Services.
The Admission Review and Dismissal/Individualized Education Program (ARD/IEP) committee must consider the physician's information as one of the factors in the committee's decision-making process when determining home-bound instructional services. However, the licensed physician’s information is not the sole consideration in this process. The ARD/IEP committee will meet to determine the need for homebound instruction. If the ARD/IEP committee determines the need for homebound services, the anticipated start and end dates and a plan for reintegration of the student to the sending school setting will be established. Community Services will provide the itinerant teacher who will log services and update the student's IEP goals and objectives in the special education data management system. assign the itinerant teacher who will log services and update the students IEP goals and objections in the special education data management system.
Homebound instruction is a temporary service and is discontinued in consultation with the physician, or upon the expiration of the documented need for homebound services.
Community Services and the sending campus will reconvene the ARD/IEP committee to return the student to the sending campus and determine the appropriate instructional program.
Note: The instructional setting from the sending campus to Community Services and from Community Services to the sending campus must be changed in the special education management system and the student information system at the conclusion of the ARD/IEP meeting.
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